I did a lot of C - a lot - in the mid-90s through the mid/late 2000s and have never seen any sizable C code base where explicit sizes were not the norm througho

I did a lot of C - a lot - in the mid-90s through the mid/late 2000s and have never seen any sizable C code base where explicit sizes were not the norm throughout - u_int32_t etc. I think this is not the problem, it's the implicit conversions.